tǫng
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tong"
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *tangō (“tong”). Cognate with Old English tang, tange, Old Frisian tange, tonge, Old Saxon tanga, Old High German zanga.
Noun
[edit]tǫng f (genitive tangar, plural tengr or tangir)
Declension
[edit]This noun may either be declined like a regular i-stem noun or as a consonant stem, having i-umlaut in the nominative and accusative plurals.
Declension of tǫng (strong i-stem)
Declension of tǫng (strong consonant stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: töng f
- Faroese: tong f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tong f; (dialectal) tøng f
- Elfdalian: taungg
- Swedish: tång c
- → Finnish: tongit
- Gutnish: tangg
- Danish: tang c
- Norwegian Bokmål: tang m or f
References
[edit]- töng in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
Categories:
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *denḱ-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse feminine i-stem nouns
- Old Norse feminine consonant stem nouns